OpenMetal Storage Pricing vs AWS S3 and EBS

Q: How does OpenMetal’s storage pricing compare to AWS S3 or EBS per TB?

OpenMetal storage servers charge a fixed monthly rate per server regardless of capacity used, while AWS S3 and EBS bill per GB stored per month plus separate charges for IOPS, requests, and egress.

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A single Storage Medium v4 provides 120 TB raw HDD plus 12.8 TB NVMe cache on fixed monthly pricing. On AWS, 120 TB of S3 Standard storage costs approximately $2,760/month ($0.023/GB) before egress or request charges [VERIFY current rates]. The same capacity on EBS gp3 costs approximately $9,600/month ($0.08/GB) , and provisioning IOPS comparable to the Micron 7500 MAX’s 1.1 million random reads would add thousands more per month on io2 Block Express .

Egress amplifies the difference. Serving 50 TB/month from S3 incurs roughly $4,500 in AWS transfer charges . OpenMetal bills egress on 95th-percentile measurement, keeping costs predictable for data-heavy workloads like media streaming, backup distribution, and S3-compatible object storage via Ceph RADOSGW.

AWS storage wins for sub-10 TB workloads, deep integration with Lambda triggers and Athena queries, and scenarios where fully managed operations outweigh the per-GB premium. OpenMetal’s fixed model wins at scale: organizations storing hundreds of terabytes with significant egress see the largest cost reduction by moving to dedicated storage servers.